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Core Audio
Core Audio
Developer: Apple Computer
OS: Mac OS X
Use: System Utility
License: Proprietary
Website: apple.com/macosx/features/
coreaudio
Apple's Core Audio interfaces
Apple's Core Audio interfaces

Core Audio is a fairly low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Apple Inc. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A application programming interface (API) is the interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for services to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. ... Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...


Apple's Core Audio documentation states that "in creating this new architecture on Mac OS X, Apple’s objective in the audio space has been twofold. The primary goal is to deliver a high-quality, superior audio experience for Macintosh users. The second objective reflects a shift in emphasis from developers having to establish their own audio and MIDI protocols in their applications to Apple moving ahead to assume responsibility for these services on the Macintosh platform." The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...


History

It was introduced in Mac OS X 10.3. Mac OS X version 10. ...


See also

Audio Units is a plug-in API developed by Apple Computer to add functionality to audio creation and recording software. ...

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Apple - Mac OS X - Core Audio (958 words)
Core Audio lays a new foundation for the next generation of world-class audio and music applications from innovative developers.
Core Audio Format is the latest addition to the dozens of audio formats supported natively in Mac OS X. Developed by Apple, Core Audio Format (CAF) combines virtually infinite capacity with rich support for metadata in an optimized-for-audio package.
Core Audio also delivers highly optimized sample rate converters to allow programs that do not yet use this high-resolution format to provide data to Mac OS X without truncation.
Linux Audio (2666 words)
The audio core consists of (1) the Linux kernel drivers that talk directly to the audio hardware, and (2) a programming interface (API) that developers use to communicate with these drivers.
The audio core is split into these two layers so that someone writing an audio application does not have to write code that talks directly to the hardware; instead they write code that talks to the drivers, and then the drivers talk to the hardware.
There are two core audio solutions commonly used under Linux: ALSA and OSS.
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